Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron

French President Emmanuel Macron's announcement on 19 January that he would be reviewing the deployment of soldiers to Opération Barkhane in the Sahel due to 'good results' in recent months follows fierce clashes in Mali over the past month...

Multilateral turnThe implications are not immediately clear but Blinken who speaks fluent French is likely to listen attentively to what France's President Emmanuel Macron wants for the Sahel and Thomas-Greenfield may herald the return to multilateralism and thus more support for the UN's troubled Mission multidimensionnelle intégrée des Nations unies pour la stabilisation au Mali (Minusma) operation in Mali officially the most hazardous UN peacekeeping operation globally...

Some Bangui politicians believe President Emmanuel Macron and his Africa advisor Frank Paris are failing to act because they do not want to threaten France's normalisation of relations with Rwanda seen as a priority or those with Russia another strategic goal...

President Emmanuel Macron's belated formal letter of congratulation to Ouattara however did concentrate on the need for dialogue...

Kenyatta and President Emmanuel Macron attended a ceremony for the agreement at the Elysée palace on 1 October...

President Emmanuel Macron had welcomed Ouattara to the Elysée for lunch on 4 September but his officials publicly stated that France remained firmly of the view that the Ivorian head of state should have stuck to his retirement plan and left the RHDP to choose a new succession candidate after Amadou Gon Coulibaly's death...

At his press conference in the week-ending 3 October Africa CDC director John Nkengasong was frank about the failure of the international COVAX initiative led by French President Emmanuel Macron to attain the numbers of vaccines Africa will need to produce herd immunity (AC Vol 61 No 18 First the good news…)...

Despite flying to Paris to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron and speak to other European leaders President Uhuru Kenyatta's European charm offensive on Mohamed's behalf last week failed to persuade most of the EU envoys who instead agreed to endorse Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Yoo Myung-hee...

This month BUA Group belonging to Dangote's rival and fellow Kano-born billionaire Abdulsamad Rabiu announced a deal alongside President Emmanuel Macron with France's Axens to build a 200 000 b/d refinery in Akwa Ibom...

President Emmanuel Macron addressing a press conference at the French presidential Mediterranean retreat the Fort de Brégançon condemned the coup against Mali's 'democratically elected' president and pressed for his release...